I feel sorry for the librarians and library employees. Read the 2012 (link), 2013 (link), and 2014 (link) incident reports from the above story. It is absolutely atrocious what librarians have to go through, including, for example, frightening sexual harassment from porn-viewing patrons:

A librarian in September, 2014, reported a regular patron had made comments about her hair and tried to touch her. The following month, he made more comments to her. This time it was about being the head of her fan club.

"He keep yelling 69, 69, 69 at me because his birthday is 1969, but he was referencing the sexual act," the female librarian said in her report. "After using the computer he wouldn't leave and kept asking for my number and saying he will miss me."

And notice the library lets the vast majority of those sex criminals including masturbators get off, as my criminal law professor joked, with essentially a slap on the wrist. See the excerpt below, for example. What's with that?

Notice how the library defends itself. After about 1,000 crimes per year for years, a reporter asks for public records of the crimes, and immediately the library director responds. Not before, mind you, only when caught. The excuse is the library has acceptable use policies in place. "We have a code of conduct and policies that we follow as best as we can," said the director.

Policing computer usage in libraries also has become a regular duty for librarians, [head of security for the library system] Mr. Sabo said.

Looking at pornography on a library computer can result in a one-week ban, while engaging in sexual activity could mean a one-year ban. In March, a man at the downtown library was eligible to be slapped with both violations for masturbating at a computer station.

"A couple of minutes into my observations, I noticed [the man] watching a video of a partially clothed female being raped by a male with a gun," a report said, and the man began masturbating through his pants. He ultimately apologized, acknowledged he should not have done that in a public place, and left quietly.

When a patron is found viewing pornography, he or she usually leaves the building quietly.

But on June 28, a man viewing pornography at the downtown library refused to leave when confronted by library security.

"When I told him he has to leave he stood up and walked within inches of me, threatening, 'If he ever sees me on the street he will put me down' and that 'He doesn’t care what badge I have or if we call the police.' " He was eventually escorted out by two security guards.

After a patron is banned, returning to the library can get him or her slapped with a criminal trespassing charge. The libraries deal with a lot of repeat offenders.

So long as I'm one of the few reporting on these issues, since mainstream library media will not touch it seriously, I'll continue to use "bad behavior" to report on and publicize the matter.

If the "free speech" librarians cannot stand my occasional use of a Twitter hashtag, that's their problem, not mine. Unbelievable that my using a hashtag is "malicious harassment" but facilitating child porn in public libraries isn't and my saying so must be squelched with broadcast ridicule. By librarians, of all people.